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Head over to the Chantry and talk to Sebastian. He will be discussing the situation with the mages with Grand Cleric Elthina. Elthina will ask you and Sebastian to talk to an agent of the Divine named Sister Nightingale and tell her that the situation in Kirkwall is not as bad as it seems.

Tell Elthina you will meet with the agent ("Of course."). Sebastian: (+10)

Tell Elthina you will go right away. Sebastian: (+15)

If Anders is in the party and you refuse to get involved ("But they are needed"), he will disapprove. Anders: (+10)

A Resolutionist blood mage

Make your way to the Viscount's Keep at night and enter the Throne room (a rogue will be required to unlock the simple doors - 10 Cunning - 50 XP). Defeat the Blood Mages and the demons. This will initiate a scene where Sister Nightingale reveals herself. She tells you that Grand Cleric Elthina is in grave danger and wants you to tell her that it is best if she left Kirkwall to some place safer.

If the Hero of Ferelden had a "romantic" encounter with Isabela and Leliana at the Pearl (and you import your save game) bringing Isabela will result in a cheek blushing (on Leliana's part) reunion between the two, and humorous reactions from Varric or Merrill if they're present.

A dialogue bug will occur where Hawke has seemed to forget that he/she had met Leliana (Sister Nightingale) during the Mark of the Assassin DLC, where the dialogue choice "And you are?" is presented upon meeting Leliana in the keep. If you completed Mark of the Assassin DLC prior to this, it will not be accounted for.

Although it doesn't show up on the city map, it is possible to enter the Viscount's Keep at night as long as this quest is not yet completed, regardless of which part of the quest you're currently actually at. This means it is possible to enter the Keep and subsequently the throne room and go through the entire encounter without having talked with Sebastian in the chantry and gone through the introduction part of the quest. What's more, it is impossible to leave the Viscount's Keep after entering until you've completed the encounter in the throne room. After meeting with "Sister Nightingale," the quest will simply update with the next part of the process, completely skipping the introduction.

Prior to patch 1.03, romance flag didn't work properly if you imported from the expansions or DLC, so Leliana wouldn't mention her romance with the Warden.

The conversation with Leliana may get stuck on the loading screen after all the mages are dead.

pc You can skip to the dialogue with Elthina via the console using the debug script. Open the console and type runscript zz_seb_debug. Select "Faith — Act II" then "Return to Elthina." Trying to do this within the short timespan between the end of the battle but before the cutscene fires seems to result in getting stuck in the loading screen after completing the console commands.

A full workaround has been discovered however that allows you to not miss anything or use the console commands (see also Repentance in Act 2). You must enter your Dragon Age II program folder and temporarily delete the patch folder under GameFolder\Addins\da2_prc_drk\module as that's where the interference lies. Then, after completing Faith, restore the patch folder. The source of this information is at Freezing issue in The Exiled Prince DLC